Government Composition in EU CountriesAs part of the Constitutional Change and Parliamentary Democracies research programme the data set provides information on the coalition governments in Western Europe.

Strøm, K., W. Müller and T. Bergman (2008). Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe,Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The data sets includes roll call data from the first to the fifth European Parliament (1979-2004). It shows the voting behaviour of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for each electronically registered vote. It also displays the aggregated voting behaviour of MEPs using nominate scores. The data set does also indicate to which party group and to which national party delegation each MEPs belongs at the beginning of each legislative term.

Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland (2006) 'Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament', American Journal of Political Science, 50(2) 494-511.

EPRG conducted an on-line survey of the MEPs in the Sixth European Parliament (2004-09) in March-June 2006. The data from this survey and our survey of the Fifth European Parliament (1999-2004), which was conducted in October-December 2000, are available here for academic research purposes.The 2006 survey included the following questions: personal details (e.g. member state, date first elected to EP, previous political experience etc.); electoral systems and candidate selection; campaigning aims and activities in 2004 elections; attitudes/behaviour relating to representation; behaviour in committees and voting in the Parliament; general political attitudes; attitudes towards specific EU policies and attitudes towards EU institutional reform.

Composition of EP and Party Political PositionsThe data set contains an overview of the party political make-up of EU legislative bodies for the period 1979-2004 (Commission: 1979-2008). It also provides information on political perferences (left-right and pro-/anti-Europe) based on party manifesto data and expert survey data.

Composition of Governments and Party Political PositionsThe data set contains an overview of the party political make-up of EU legislative bodies for the period 1979-2004 (Commission: 1979-2008). It also provides information on political perferences (left-right and pro-/anti-Europe) based on party manifesto data and expert survey data.

EUR-Lex (fomerly
Prelex) follows the major stages of the decision-making process between the Commission and the other institutions: stage of the procedure; decisions of the institutions; persons' names; services responsible; references of documents and monitors the works of the various institutions involved.

Data extraction tool for PRELEX, EUR-Lex and EP Legislative Observatoryhttp://api.epdb.eu/
EUPOL: EU Legislative Decision-Making (1975-2009)Based on the PRELEX data set, the EUPOL data set includes information on all stages of the legislative procedure for the time period 1975-2009.